Effie

Lemar's former protégée Effie has come a long way in the years since her debut single Into Yello first hit the airwaves. Having spent the last year as a featured artist with cuts on releases by FOOR and Dots Per Inch, the striking songstress is ready to unleash her new compositions on the music world.

With the compelling Awkward and engaging Kokoroko setting the scene for her set, a clearly nervous Effie takes centre stage. With the audience unable to control their excitement as she launches into her set, her vocal is on form even if it takes a couple of songs to shake those jitters. Coming in to her own with a flawless reworking of Darek's Hotline Bling, her set is a well balanced insight into her new material and some inspired covers. Of the covers it is a truly unforgettable take on Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit that sets the bar so high that you question when her own material can live up to the ingenuity of her covers.

But fret not, for in her the raw, real honesty of her lyrics and the underplayed vocal acrobatics, Effie immediately sets herself apart from the most prominent of her contemporaries. She isn't playing for attention like Rita, nor is she lost in one sound like Jess Glynne, Effie is a genre-bending, hook aware, vocally nuanced diva ready to take her crown as a chart dominator. Without doubt or hesitation her debut single Pressure is the most immediate in appeal of her new compositions, and it would easily fit on the BBC Radio 1 playlist, but it is in the depths of the heartfelt ballad Lose that Effie sets hearts fluttering.

Although her set was all too brief, it left the audience begging for more. This is an artist who will have you addicted as she continues to grow before our eyes.